Playing-cards.



T. W. LUGKE. PLAYING CARDS.

PATENTED MAY z8, 1907.

APPLICATION FILED NOV. 24, 1905.

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NTTED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

THOMASV W. LUCKE, CF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

PLAYING-Qantas.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented may 28,1997.

Application filed November 24, 1905. Serial Ifile. 288,955.

tion and claims, which may best be ascer.

tained by Areference to the accompanying drawing, illustrating in a single iigure a card deck or pack of thirty two (32) cards ernbodying myinvention. y y

In general my improved card pack comprises a plurality of suits whereof each card bears an indication of its suit denomination, the designation of each suit being some per sonal attribute, and each card of a suit bearing au indication of its relative value in the suit and a distinct suit, whereof all cards are counterparts, vsaid cards bearing suit indicia only and being devoid of relative value indicia. Furthermore, in one or more of the suits the designation whereof is a personal attribute, each card bears an expression indicative of said attribute differing from that of every other card of the suit, the distinctive attribute expressions of the cards` being ar# ranged to rhyme when read in the order of successive valuation as the cards cf said suit.

Referring nowspeciiically to the drawing, I, II, III, and IV, indicate respectivel suit groups of cards the four of which ma e up the complete pack. In each suit the nurnber of cards is equal to the number of every other suit, in the particular embodiment described there being'eightcards in each suit. One or more of the suits, as for example suits I, II and III have as suit denominations designations of some. general personal attributes, the designation ofsuit I being the attribute of station,- and the designation of suit II being the attribute of virtuc, and that of suit III the attribute of wealth In each of suits I and II the respective cards f the suit bear speciiic suit indicia in the form of expressions indicative of or classifiable under the general attribute denomination of the suit, and in addition the several cards of each of said suits bear value indicia in sequential or successivey arrangement, the value indications and specific suit indications of the respective cards being so co-ordinated that whenv the specific ,designations of. the

cards ofeither of saidY suits are read in the'4 order of successive card values, said specific card indications rhyme or form a jingle easily remembered. Thus Vin suit -number I, the

cards bear in common a squeeze'r'l denomination, indicating the general attribute by which the 'suit is known, that is to say, the wordstation, and the several cards ofthe suit bear in addition value indications in the lform of the successive letters A, B, C, D, E,

y F, G, H, bywhich the cards will 'b e hereafter referred to. their faces 'designation The. cards further bear upon of each card of said suit' being indicative of the attribute "of station yThus, in the order of their succession above mentioned the cards bear the names, King, Prince, Duke, Lord, Lawyer, Doctor, Tinker,

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Bard, which, it will 4be noted, form a jingle v easily remembered, The general suitindications in the sdueezers of the cards, to-wit, the word station imprinted upon each card is supplemental only of the specific dessi y ignation of the card and may be omitted if desired, as the speciiic designations of. the

cards are themselves indicative of the gen- -l eral attribute of station Likewise the i cards of suit II, denominated by the attribute- 1 expression virtue are successively lettered tions A., s, c, n, E, r., e, H. what ais ftpparent that rhyming specific indications of different degrees o r grades of wealth might be employed on the cards, I prefer to indi'- cate the degrees of wealth gra hically, by representations of money bags h resentations of the value of the supposed contents in the order of relative value of the cards in the suit, or similar designations connected with wealth.' y l i The fourth suit, indicated as the Love suit is composed vof counterpart cards bearing representations indicative of their suit and being devoid of any value indicia.. This last mentioned suit, whereof the cards have caring rep ICO no relative value indication may be termed a players, by removing, when necessary, cer-- tain of the penalty suit cards,) a card is played by one of the players] The other players follow suit, if possible, or discard any card of the hand where suit can not be followed. The player of the highest card of the suit led takes the trick, the object of each player being to secure all of the cards of one or more of the suits, except the penalty suit. When all of the cards of a suit have been taken by one player he is said to have qualified to that suit. The game is continued hand after hand until some player has qualified in each of the iirst, second and third suits, that is the Station, Virtue and Wealth suits, The player so qualifyingin all three suits Wins the game,and is entitled to a forfeit of some.

suitable character from such vplayer as, at the conclusion of a hand wherein the final quali- I, fication was perfected, holds the greatest number of cards of the penalty or love suit. To add to the chances of skilful play the count against each unsuccessful player at the time of the final qualification may be reduced by deducting therefrom the number of rhyming tricks he has taken during the play of the game; thus the taking of a trick of the virtue suit played in the following sequence; (l) Nobleness; (2)' Dignity; (3) Patience; (4) Befligrity, may entitle the player of the Dignity card to a reduction of one in the score of penalty cards counted against him if he is unsuccessful in the gaine. Obviously ,suitable rules to meet different contingencies` of the game may be provided which may be varied in particular cases to suit conditions which need not here be discussed.

Having thus described my invention, What I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent, of the United States, is:

l. In a card game pack, a plurality of suits composed of equal number of cards, each 5o card of av suit bearing an indication of its suit denomination, and the several cards of each said suit bearing indications of successive valueslin their respective suits, and anotherl suit containing a like number of cards, each 55 of Which bears only an indication of its suit ldenomination'vand is devoid of value indicia.

2. In a card pack, -a plurality of suits, the cards of each suit bearingindications of suit denomination, indications of successive value 6o and different Words arranged to rhyme when read in the order of the card values.

3. In a card game ack, a suit'of a denoinination indicative o some attribute, each card of the suit bearing an expression indica- 65 tive of thatA attribute diering from'that ofl every other card of the suit, the cards of said suit bearing indicia of successive value, and the indicative attribute-expressions of the cards being arranged to rhyme VWhen read in 7o of successive value;l and a distinctive penalty. 8e

suit whereof the cards bear suit denomination only and are devoid of value indicia. j

In testimony Whereofl hereunto set my hand in the presence of two` Witnesses.

THOMAS W. LUCKE.

in the presence of*a GEO. T. MAY, Jr., MARY F. ALLEN.

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